Fisheries/Aquaculture

Credit: Fishtek Marine Underwater sound devices called "pingers" could be an effective, long-term way to prevent porpoises getting caught in fishing nets with no negative behavioural effects, newly published research suggests. The…

Water frogs could become regionally extinct in part of their native Turkey in a little over a decade because too many are being taken for food. A new study, carried out in partnership with Ege University, Middle East Technical…

Credit: Charlie Ellis Scientists have developed a test that can identify hybrids resulting from crossbreeding between European and American lobsters. American lobsters have occasionally escaped or been released into European waters…

Specimens provide insights into changing environmental conditions Researchers will soon have access to the full genomic sequences for 23 marine mammal species preserved by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), thanks…

Opportunist species with great spread abilitiesCredit: Isabel Afán (EBD-CSIC) The yellow-legged gull has a high ability to adapt to human activities and benefit from these as a food resource during all year. This is stated in a…

Incorporating the oceans into climate policy is essential, scientists say in a new paperCredit: Authors of the paper Debates around the Green New Deal have largely centered around climate change concerns on land. But a group of…

KINGSTON, R.I. - May 4, 2020 - A team of fisheries scientists and marine policy experts, led by a University of Rhode Island researcher, examined how climate change is affecting the ocean environment and found that the changing conditions…

Credit: Lynn Ketchum, Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers in Oregon State University's College of Agricultural Sciences have taken a step closer to solving one of nature's most remarkable mysteries: How do salmon,…

Credit: Julieta Martinelli/University of Washington Plastic pollution is an increasingly present threat to marine life and one which can potentially impact your dinner table. Oysters, and other economically valuable…

Climate-driven shifts disrupt fisheries, desalination plants; problems may hit other regionsCredit: Norman Kuring/NASA A uniquely resilient organism all but unheard of in the Arabian Sea 20 years ago has been proliferating and…

Credit: David Hocking What price are you willing to pay for food? As humans, we face this challenge each time we shop, but for some seals and dolphins this may be a life or death decision. Modern medical scanning reveals…

Credit: Pekka Hyvärinen, The Natural Resources Institute Finland Collaborate research of the University of Jyvaskyla and the Natural Resources Institute Finland on salmonid fishes, sheds light on animal defence mechanisms and their…

Credit: University of Basel, Dario Moser Evolution is usually viewed as a slow process, with changes in traits emerging over thousands of generations only. Over the recent years, however, research has indicated that adaptation in specific…

Credit: Daniel Tregidgo Poorer rural Amazonians are going hungry despite living in one of the most biodiverse areas on the planet - a new study reveals. Massive seasonal floods mean many ribeirinhos, a marginalised social group who live…

Climate change and warming seas are transforming tropical coral reefs and undoing decades of knowledge about how to protect these delicate and vital ecosystemsCredit: Nick Graham, Lancaster University Climate change and…

Credit: Abigail Bennett, Michigan State University Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability Fishing for a living can seem so Zen - a time to be in the moment, just the fisher, the boat, the water. Yet scientists are…